Word: california
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...graduate of the California Institute of Technology, worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and began a program in China last summer that helps finance elementary schools in poor villages...
...critics and independent operators agree there is more at stake than just money. With consolidation has come a level of depersonalization that family-owned funeral homes, for all their other alleged sins, have managed to resist. "It really shows that nothing is sacred," says Karen Leonard, executive director of California's Redwood Funeral Society (her E-mail name is CheapExit), who was Mitford's research associate. "You are just part of the machine. This is just another body. This is just another family. Sell, sell, sell...
...June, Harrelson was nabbed for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky to promote hemp's usefulness as a crop. Last week he hung from the Golden Gate Bridge with other environmentalists, snarling traffic and doing interviews by phone to protest the logging of a redwood grove in Northern California. "I just lately learned about climbing," the actor told the San Francisco Examiner. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Back on earth, he was arrested (again) and faces a $10,000 fine...
Casey Singleton works for Norton Aircraft in California. When an accident occurs on a Norton jet, it's her job to figure out what went wrong, aided by a gruff, profane but lovable band of engineers. She is up against corporate intriguers, angry union members and Jennifer Malone, a young, cynical producer for Newsline, a TV newsmagazine. Crichton has done a lot of research into the construction and testing of aircraft, and the detail on this subject is the most impressive part of the book. He plays fair with the mystery; the characters adequately fulfill their roles of heroes...
...sorely tempted this election to forgo that right. The numerous propositions and initiatives, the widely differing backgrounds and experience of the candidates and their claims and counterclaims were intimidating. If we don't increase voter participation, we are heading down the path to autocracy! WILLIAM A. DIXON San Jose, California...